Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/libreoffice: ChangeLog libreoffice-3.4.99.1.ebuild libreoffice-3.5.0.0.ebuild

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

On 12/17/2011 04:02 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:47:47 +0000
> Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On 12/17/2011 08:32 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:33:11 +0000 Markos Chandras
>>> <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> to avoid useless compilations to slow machines
>>>
>>> That's a package manager issue, not an ebuild issue.
>>>
>> How come? The package appears to have a lower version compared to the
>> previous one so the package manager treats it as a downgrade
> 
> No, the issue that you think there's such a thing as a "useless
> compilation". Your package manager should provide you with an easy way
> of saying "I don't care about this package this time when I'm updating
> world, so exclude it if possible".

With emerge there are currently at least two possible ways to accomplish
this:

1) Put the package in /etc/portage/package.mask (it will trigger
warnings about the installed package being masked though)

2) Use the emerge --exclude option.

If those don't fit well enough, we can add yet another way to do it.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac